Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 297 "Lady"

Two liquid metal flying blades cut open the yellow and black seal on the surface of the portable freezer. Six tentacle-like hyphae instantly entered the fourteen-digit password on the keypad of the combination lock. With a slight "click" sound, the lid of the freezer popped up a tiny crack, and white ice mist instantly poured out from the gap.

What is contained in this freezer is the "power source" of the collection equipment.

This is a Type C monster. It looks like a common eel, but the mucous membrane on its body has a special metallic texture, as if it is wrapped in a layer of mercury.

The strange creature was placed in a cylindrical container with a diameter of 15 cm and a length of 45 cm. The middle part of the container was made of transparent glass, and one could clearly see the strange creature curled up inside the container and the pale yellow liquid that filled the entire container.

Sun Hang didn’t know what this strange creature was called, nor did he know the principle of how it provided energy to the “pile driver”... But he didn’t need to know these things, he just needed to know how to use it.

Sun Hang tore off the protective film at both ends of the container, revealing a metal interface that looked like the positive and negative poles of a battery - this thing was indeed a battery, but it was not a common fuel cell or lithium battery, but a concept that often appeared in many science fiction works: a biological battery.

To be more precise, perhaps it should be called a "weird battery."

Sun Hang inserted this "weird battery" into the battery slot on the device, and then turned off the power switch next to it.

With a slight "hiss" sound, an electric arc flashed in the light yellow liquid, and then the light yellow liquid gradually turned into turquoise.

The eel monster, which was originally in a dormant state, was instantly awakened and began to violently hit the inner wall of the container.

However, after only two or three collisions, the color of the liquid in the container changed from turquoise to a dreamy purple.

The frequency of electric arcs in water also began to become very frequent.

The eel monster straightened its body as if it had been electrocuted, and then began to twitch violently.

Sun Hang could feel that the meme fragments inside the eel monster were falling apart and then merging into the purple liquid in the form of fragments.

The densely packed indicator lights on the control panel of the acquisition device all lit up and began to turn from red to green one by one.

When all indicator lights turn green, it means the equipment is ready to start working at any time.

But what is coming will come.

Chimera No. 17 couldn't just watch Sun Hang collect his meme samples and do nothing.

Sun Hang turned around and protected the equipment behind him.

Nearly a hundred liquid metal flying blades were suspended around him, and countless Tai Sui hyphae formed a huge net on the ground. More than a dozen puppets made of hyphae, Sun Hang, stood up from the ground and opened their eyes.

A woman in a blood-red floor-length tube dress walked slowly out of the rain, but no rain fell on her at all - just like Zhulong's protective shield, there was a similar barrier on this woman's body, isolating the rain from the outside.

She lowered her head, wearing a top hat decorated with artificial flowers, and her face was covered with a shadow that Sun Hang could never see through.

Her slender arms were slightly bent, and her hands in black lace gloves were folded over her abdomen, making her look as elegant as a noble lady.

People like this should have appeared at celebrity cocktail parties in the last century, not in places like this.

Sun Hang, the hunter who participated in the mission, remembered it very clearly. If there was a guy dressed so unusually among them, it would be impossible for him not to have an impression of him.

Appearing in such a place, with a strong aura of weird memes on his body, if he is not a hunter, then he can only be a weird.

"Who are you?" Sun Hang greeted him with a smile, "There is construction ahead, please take a detour."

The lady raised her head slightly, and a scarlet light suddenly flashed in her left eye. A red laser penetrated the shadow covering her face and pierced Sun Hang's eyebrows.

No, this is not a beam of red light, but a beam of blood that is moving at an extremely fast speed and shrinking to the limit.

Modern industrial water jigs can cut stone and metal with high-pressure water jets, but the blood that shot out of this noble lady's eyes was even more powerful than that of a water jig.

Sun Hang, with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open, fell backwards with a bloody hole between his eyebrows.

But before he fell to the ground, his body had already disintegrated and turned into a ball of scattered mycelium.

The next moment, another Sun Hang stood up behind the lady and clamped his hands around her tall and slender neck.

"Ma'am, you seem a little unfriendly."

Sun Hang's five fingers suddenly tightened, and a crisp sound of bones being crushed came from the lady's neck.

But just when Sun Hang was about to break her neck, the lady's head suddenly turned 180 degrees like an owl, and the blood line thinner than a hair instantly swept across a fan-shaped area.

Sun Hang's expression froze. After a few seconds, a line of blood appeared on his forehead, followed by many tiny blood beads pouring out from the blood line.

His entire crown was cut off by that line of blood.

The second mycelium puppet collapsed.

The lady turned her head back to the front, and the deep red finger marks on her fair neck gradually faded away.

"Elegant, really elegant." The third Sun Hang clapped his hands and walked over from the side of the lady. "Although I can't see your face clearly, from your figure and temperament, you must be a rare beauty. I wonder if Madam is willing to share the same table with me tonight?"

The lady did not say anything, but turned to look at the third Sun Hang.

In other words, the fatal blood line that could cut through steel swept towards Sun Hang again.

Sun Hang, who had been prepared, crouched down and barely avoided the blood line's attack. Then he instantly rushed forward, clenched his right fist, and hit the lady's lower abdomen.

The imagined dull sound of impact did not come. Sun Hang only felt that his fist seemed to hit into some kind of liquid, and passed through the lady's body almost without any hindrance, and came out from the lower back of the lady.

He suddenly thought of a very classic line.

"Women are made of water."

The arm that pierced the lady's body was instantly turned into minced meat by a huge force. Two blood lines flowed from top to bottom, directly cutting the third mycelium puppet into three pieces.

"It's a bit tricky." The fourth Sun Hang stood up. He didn't use the liquid metal blade to attack, but directly used his fist. His purpose was actually to create direct contact and then plunder the opponent's meme fragments... But what surprised Sun Hang was that after the mycelium puppet's fist pierced the lady's body, the connection between the mycelium puppet and Sun Hang's body was directly cut off. The speed was so fast that Sun Hang didn't even have the opportunity to activate his Taotie ability.

Sun Hang looked back at the data collection equipment. Of the more than 60 indicator lights on the control panel, almost one-third had turned from red to green.

When Sun Hang was looking at the data collection equipment, the lady also looked over there - but unlike Sun Hang's gaze, her "gaze" was real.

More than a dozen mixed shields made of soil, glass slag, liquid metal and mycelium broke through the ground and rose up, blocking the collection equipment. The blood line shot out from the lady's eyes cut through eleven shields in a row, and was not blocked until the twelfth shield.

"I told you to take a detour because there's construction ahead... Are you fucking deaf?" Four Sun Hangs pounced on the lady from four directions at the same time, but the lady's head just turned a circle, and the four mycelium puppets were cut into eight pieces and fell to the ground.

"The monster's body seems to be able to switch between liquid and solid states freely, making it immune to most physical attacks... Its attack method is to shoot high-voltage blood lines from its eyes, a purely physical attack. Although its head moves very quickly, it is still possible to dodge..."

Sun Hang silently memorized the opponent's characteristics in his mind while planning the next tactics.

He didn't necessarily want to kill this "lady".

As long as he completes the collection of meme samples, he can take the samples and leave directly. With the ability he has shown, she can't stop her.

All Sun Hang needs to do is stop her and ensure that the meme collection equipment operates normally.

It can't be killed, but it's easy to delay time.

Another batch of mycelium puppets rushed forward. This batch of mycelium puppets were not only faster and stronger than the previously killed puppets, but they were also covered with a layer of armor made of liquid metal. From a distance, they looked like a dozen puppets made of steel.

Just as these dozen or so enhanced mycelium puppets approached the lady, thousands of cracks instantly appeared on her cheeks, neck, shoulders - in short, all the exposed skin.

The same number of blood lines shot out in all directions, just like the colorful lights emitted by a disco ball in a dance hall.

More than a dozen enhanced puppets were immediately chopped into small pieces... Fortunately, the amount of blood simulated in the mycelium puppets was not too much, otherwise this scene would probably not pass the review even if it was put into a restricted movie.

"Tsk... Intelligence updated. Except for his eyes, this guy can shoot out high-voltage blood lines from any part of his body... If that's the case, why did she turn her head around just now? What a bad taste?" Sun Hang thought to himself.

"The bad news is that the mycelium puppets can't beat her. The good news is that there are a lot of mycelium puppets... Even if they can't beat her, at least they can stop her from attacking the collection equipment."

Those chopped mycelium puppets turned back into their original forms and were absorbed by the mycelium network spread on the ground... For Sun Hang, the death of a puppet was almost a negligible cost.

Just when Sun Hang was planning to create more mycelium puppets and use human wave tactics to overwhelm the noble lady, the floor-length dress the noble lady was wearing suddenly changed.

The satin-like skirt suddenly began to lengthen and spread out in all directions.

It no longer looked like some kind of fabric, but rather like spreading blood.

All the mycelium networks covered by the blood were cut off from Sun Hang. In just a few seconds, the mycelium network that Sun Hang had previously laid out lost nearly one-fifth of its area.

"You still have this trick?" Sun Hang took a deep breath, "Then don't blame me for being brutal."

The ground trembled slightly, and a huge hand made of rock rose from the ground, grabbed the lady's body and threw her away.

"Fuck you." Sun Hang, who was manipulating the giant rock hand, still kept throwing it, and cursed softly, "Go back to where you came from."

The lady was thrown back into the rain, but her body deformed several times in the air and finally fell lightly to the ground.

Although it looked a little embarrassed after being thrown out, its graceful landing posture restored some face for this strange creature.

Sun Hang was still a little envious of the lady's abilities, but at the moment he just wanted to complete the task quickly and leave this place - for some reason, there was always a voice in his subconscious urging him to leave this place immediately.

The farther away from Chimera 17, the better.

This feeling appeared after Sun Hang entered the "dry area", and as the distance between him and the giant cocoon continued to shorten and as time passed, this feeling became stronger and stronger.

There is no shame in following your heart.

The green light on the acquisition device is already half lit.

Under the operation of several mycelium puppets, the huge hammer has been aimed at a certain point at the bottom of the giant cocoon, and the parts at the end of the hammer have begun to rotate at high speed.

The battery fluid of the monster battery turned into a glaring red... But unlike blood, this was a clear and transparent red. If Sun Hang had to use something to compare it to, he felt that it was quite similar to the watermelon soda sold in vending machines - the kind that would dye your entire tongue with pigment after you drank it.

Sun Hang took a step back towards the collection equipment, and dozens of newly generated mycelium puppets also took a step back.

They formed a semicircle, protecting the collection equipment in the middle.

Including the one who was just thrown out by Sun Hang, five noble ladies in red dresses appeared in the rain and walked towards this side with elegant steps.

Sun Hang sighed helplessly, then rushed out like an arrow.

The puppets also rushed out with him.

The best defense is offense, and if possible, he would rather drag these five ladies out of the dry area.

The further they are from the collection equipment, the safer the collection equipment is.

The indicator light was changing from red to green at an increasingly fast speed. Sun Hang estimated that in another thirty seconds, the data collection equipment would be able to start working.

As for how long it would take to collect the meme samples, Yang Qi did not tell him.

Sun Hang also asked Zhong Ling privately, but the latter just shook his head: "The speed of collecting memetic samples will depend on the complexity of the target's memes. I can't give you an accurate answer."

"That should at least give a vague answer, right?"

“No.” Zhong Ling looked at him expressionlessly, “It may be over in a few seconds, or it may last for several hours.”

(End of this chapter)